Good Afternoon Scripting Guys. I have a script that I have been working with pretty much all day today and just cant quite get it to play nice. Our objective is to search AD for specific users (say filtering them out with a username that starts with a "T") and User account is "Enabled" then grab the last four digits of their phone number (phone number is set up as follows: (800) 123 456 ) then populate the IPPHONE attribute with the last four digits of their phone number. I have read a ton of online blogs with users successfully making this happen but it appears that they are all using Quest (as the commands are all Get-qaduser and Set-qaduser). I need something that runs strictly in native Active Directory Module PowerShell on a Windows Server 2008r2 Domain Controller. I am also trying to keep it as simple as possible by using a Get command, then piping a Set command. I have saved the script into a .ps1 file with the logic as follows:
$SelUsers = Get-ADUser -filter {(SamAccountName -like "t*")} -Properties ipphone,telephonenumber -searchbase "OU=Test Users,OU=Temporary Org,OU=Test_Domain Users,DC=mydomain,DC=com" | where {($_.enabled -eq $True)}
foreach ($user in $SelUsers)
{$user.ipphone = $user.telephonenumber(4,$User.telephonenumber.length-4)
set-aduser -instance $user}
What is happening is kind of funny, but aggravating at the same time. When we run the script, it completes with no errors. When I pull up the properties of a user in the OU, the IP Phone field is populated with the number 8. If the User account did not have a telephone number, the IP Phone field is populated with a -4. So, apparently, the script is somehow subtracting the "-4" from the number of all of the Telephone Number field's characters. Basically 12-4 is 8. If there is no telephone number, then 0-4 is -4. I have run the Get-ADUser portion of the script independently so I know its getting the correct users. I also know it is populating the IPPHONE attribute but not with the last 4 digits of the telephone number. Can you guys help out and maybe get this to work correctly? Also, can you add logic to it to the script to delete any value in the IPPHONE field first, then replace it with the last 4 digits of the telephone.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!!!! Thanks Guys...
Lee
